Your favourite ever car that you've owned

EssexExile

Most fun - Panther Kallista, most practical - Vauxhall Carlton.

dannyrst

Clio 182 full fat.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

My favourite was definitely my Citroen GS - 1222cc air-cooled engine, lovely wallowy suspension, tyres the width of a cat's whisker, power brakes with about 1mm of travel from off to locked up, massive rectangular boot, did nearly 100mph, brilliant road holding in the wet when all the XR3's were slithering off the roundabouts.

Close second was my Cavalier 2.0iL, F reg, sometime in the 1980s if I looked it up, my only ever company car. Lovely acceleration, not my favourite as it did give me a spin on the M42/M40 slip road which had just opened.

Other close second is my current car, Merc C220 Cdi estate - just point and go, no drama.

Worst cars? Allegro 1500, no more to be said.

Favourite car to drive that I didn't own? Vauxhall Senator 3.0 - got to drive it down to Falmouth from Birmingham - an early car with electronic dash and trip computer, we could get it down to 2mpg on heavy acceleration.

LandyAndy

Definitely my TR6.

movilogo

Nissan Sunny

Bought for £300 with 138k miles. Learnt driving in it and then sold for £350

loskie

1999 slx tdi Octavia estate bought at 4 yrs old with 45000m for £4700 ran it till 180000m 10 yrs old and put it into the scrappage scheme for 2k. It was however too good to scrap.

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IanMSpencer wrote: »

My favourite was definitely my Citroen GS - 1222cc air-cooled engine, lovely wallowy suspension, tyres the width of a cat's whisker, power brakes with about 1mm of travel from off to locked up, massive rectangular boot, did nearly 100mph, brilliant road holding in the wet when all the XR3's were slithering off the roundabouts.

Close second was my Cavalier 2.0iL, F reg, sometime in the 1980s if I looked it up, my only ever company car. Lovely acceleration, not my favourite as it did give me a spin on the M42/M40 slip road which had just opened.

Other close second is my current car, Merc C220 Cdi estate - just point and go, no drama.

Worst cars? Allegro 1500, no more to be said.

Favourite car to drive that I didn't own? Vauxhall Senator 3.0 - got to drive it down to Falmouth from Birmingham - an early car with electronic dash and trip
computer, we could get it down to 2mpg on heavy acceleration.

Ah the Cavalier... I had 2 of those an x reg must have been a mark 2 and a K reg the newer model which was quite a decent car. That takes my list to 17.

Ishtar

Vauxhall Chevette, S reg, cost me £200 and I loved that car. Put 15k miles on it with no problems until someone rear ended me, then it was written off..

chelseablue

Im 32 and been driving since I was 18, in that time I have owned 4 cars:


A 1990 Peugeot 205:
always fond memories of your first car but would I want to drive one again? Hell no.
Manual choke = No thank you!


Nissan Almera (1995 N reg):
Had this a few years, very reliable but had a problem with rust


Toyota Yaris (2001 reg)
Liked this car a lot, would def have another when Im old and don't need a family car


Nissan Note (2006 model)
My current car and I love it! The styling probably isn't to everyone's taste but it's so cheap to run and never had a problem with it
It's 9 years old and it's only done 32,000 miles


After owning both French and Japanese makes I would never have a French car again (I also had a Citroen C3 once as a courtesy car and that was rubbish too!)

EssexExile

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That takes my list to 17.

Is that all? Still you've time yet, you're only young. I'm on number 19 (if you don't count motorbikes) but nowadays I keep them for about 10 years so it doesn't go up very fast.